Chapter 12: Cruelty or Tragedy...
Amid the laughter of the crowd, night fell.
The Huns did not come again, and set up camp five miles outside the north city gate and had dinner.
Their arrogant laughter and the smell of cooked beef and mutton were not dissipated by this 'close' distance.
"More than two kilometers, the Huns' hearts are really big!"
Listening to Han Rui's complaints, the veteran spoke: "This is bullying my Han family for not having cavalry..."
If there were cavalry in the clouds now, even if it was only a thousand horsemen, they would dare to station five miles outside the city?
It's no wonder that the grandmother who beat them doesn't know them!
It's just five miles, and the cavalry is rushing down with all their might, and it's a matter of two minutes!
"Big brother, I haven't asked you what your name is?"
The veteran touched his head with a look of humility: "Hey, what's the big brother or not, I may be younger than you." โ
Han Rui was directly stupid.
'Himself' is now seventeen, and this person is younger than himself?
After thinking about it, the man said again: "My name is Sang Ji, and I am the son of the Sang family of Yangshou Winery, and I am sixteen years old this year. โ
Han Rui couldn't help but hold his forehead, people in ancient times were too precocious...
If you want to put it aside for future generations, the sixteen-year-old baby should have just entered high school, and while secretly falling in love with someone, she was forced to brush the three-year college entrance examination and five-year simulation, right?
This guy in front of him is good, this is going to the battlefield!
And survived!
Don't think it's easy to survive on the battlefield.
Every soldier who has experienced a big battle on the battlefield and survived can become the backbone of an elite army.
Guy is a man who can survive the ever-changing chaos of the battlefield is a combination of bravery, command, and force!
Han Rui's face was full of admiration, and he arched his hand: "My name is Han Rui, Zhang Jiayuren, and I am two years older than you." โ
While the two were chatting, a group of old women climbed the city wall with wooden frames.
The cloth covering the frame was lifted, and in an instant, a burst of rice fragrance swept over the city wall.
"Come, sons and daughters, have worked hard, eat something, and have enough strength to kill the enemy!"
The hot corn was distributed to the soldiers' bowls, and the crowd devoured it, despite the blandness of the dry rice.
After eating the pitiful corn in the bowl, the smell of meat wafting from the enemy camp made everyone's mouths water.
Just as he was about to ask for another bowl of rice, an arrow broke through the wind and pierced the old woman in the chest.
The sudden change made everyone's brains freeze, and they only watched the old woman struggling on the ground in a daze.
"Enemy Attack !!!!!"
Sang Ji shouted loudly, and everyone came back to their senses from their stunned stupor, and hurriedly looked out of the city.
In the moonlight, thousands of Hun cavalry galloped forward, fired an arrow at the city wall from afar, and then turned their horses and retreated.
After retreating about a hundred paces, he turned back again, and as he galloped, the longbow in his hand was thrown again, and another shot was thrown.
Over and over again, the stunned soldiers defending the city fell in large numbers.
In front of the group of cavalry, countless Hu people, with blue or green eyes, gold or brown hair, holding simple stone knives and bone ninjas, and even a wooden stick, screamed and attacked the city wall.
"Slave Army!"
Sang Ji's exclamation shocked Han Rui's hairs to stand on end!
The unique siege method of the Huns: the siege of the city with slave ants, the knights of the headquarters put cold arrows on the periphery, consumed the defenders' arrows and physical strength, and finally swarmed up to capture the city!
The slave army basically has no weapons and equipment, and the tactical literacy is just as pitiful, and the real terrible thing is...
The number of people and the fighting spirit!
Tens of thousands of slaves rushed towards the city walls, their eyes full of blood and fanaticism!
"Bow on, shoot arrows!"
As the only 'veteran' among these dozens of people, Sanji assumed temporary command.
Everyone came back to their senses and hurriedly bent their bows and arrows, but they hurriedly shot out because they were nervous.
Seeing that the defenders only stopped a wave of scattered 'waves', Bald Li only felt that the strategy of the night attack was really very clear!
"The Han people can't do it anymore!"
"Tell the slaves in front of you that if you kill a Han Chinese, you can become a glorious Hun warrior!"
"Kill three and be a nobleman! Kill enough ten and be crowned king!! โ
At the sound of the order, the morale of the slave army was greatly boosted, and the pressure of the defenders in the clouds increased sharply, so they had to watch the slave army put the cloud ladder up the city wall.
"Don't panic, knock down the Huns' ladder and throw stones and trees down!"
Sang Ji's command gave everyone a backbone in their hearts, and according to his words, he picked up the rolling wood boulder under the wall and threw it outward, and there was a wail under the city wall.
After repeating it several times, everyone was familiar with it, and a steady stream of stones and trees rolled down, frightening the slave army to stop.
Seeing that the slave army did not dare to move forward, the soldiers stopped a few salvos in a similar way, and finally repelled them.
"Victory! The Huns were repulsed! โ
One of the sergeants stood up, and before the cheers could be heard, a cold arrow was shot into the head and fell off the wall.
"Shoot back! Avoid! โ
At Sangji's order, the crowd did not have time to rejoice in the brief victory and hid themselves under the battlements.
Seeing that the slave army had retreated, Bald Li cut off a few heads in anger and shouted, "Those who dare to take a step back! Kill! โ
The slaves were in a desperate situation, they did not dare to retreat, they did not dare to attack, and they froze in place for a while.
There was a brief silence on the walls, and the defenders were able to breathe for a moment.
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Han Rui put down the crossbow machine in his hand and leaned against the wall, panting heavily.
The precision of the bow that I used to hunt on a daily basis disappeared, and even with a crossbow that was easier to operate, I couldn't aim at all because of the shaking of my hands.
His hands were bruised from repeatedly lifting rough stones, and the pain exacerbated the shaking of his hands when holding the crossbow.
Just as he was about to drink saliva to calm down, Zhang Weiyang walked over from a distance.
came over together, as well as Zhang Jiayu Qingzhuang, who was assigned in the distance before.
"Brother Zhang? Why did you guys get here? โ
Zhang Weiyang glanced at Han Rui's hands and said, "The county government has recruited a group of village warriors in the city, and they have already gone up to the city wall, and we have been sent to your section of the city wall to recast the defense line." โ
Hearing this, Sang Ji sighed: "The trick of recruiting courage has been used, is the battle situation really so bad..."
Raising his head and looking at the condition of the soldiers, Sang Ji shook his head helplessly and sighed.
The war situation is already bad, and it can't be worse.
The original 3,000 soldiers in Yunyuan had lost thousands of casualties in the past two days, and the rest were also painted, and their injuries were either light or severe.
Those who have not completely lost their combat effectiveness are now standing on the city walls, and their number is only less than five hundred.
In the afternoon, 5,000 people were transferred to the city, and more than half of them were killed or wounded in one hour!
In this section of the city wall, there were nearly forty soldiers at dinner, and there were less than fifteen left who could still stand and pant at the moment...
On the ground, the face lying in a pool of blood was so familiar.
An hour ago, everyone was still sitting around introducing each other and joking with each other.
The Huns did not even attack the city with a slave army.
The cold arrows released from the periphery have already caused huge casualties.